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Please let us stop these childish e-wars.

What exactly do you wish to gain from it?

timekeeper1:
We know a man, who sacrificed the lives of his people... He led them to their slaughter and guess what, He escaped with his family... He denied his people of food but fed his family...


Later he returned and was given all his military benefits. He became part of Nigeria again and he even contested for president of Nigeria.. Later he died but b4 he died, he was bedridden, bedwetting, paralyzed.

And His name is Agbariojuwku




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But Madam Tinubu later changed her trade into export of Agricultural produce and importation of finished manufacture European products.

She helped the British Government to implement the anti-slavery policies, setting captured slaves free in exchange for British financial compensation and reaching out to other slave dealers to accept the the 'British amnesty' offer and drop slave trading.

papiforreal:
“History Wars”

Edward Colston is gone. Robert Milligan is gone. King Leopold II is gone. Good. Now, let’s talk about how we honor the legacies of the indigenous slaveowners.

What we are witnessing here are “history wars” - the political struggles in which versions of the past - the silenced history - that have long gone largely uncontested are exposed and challenged. This is ultimately a battle of ideas, and sooner or later, we will feel the contagious and domino effect here in Nigeria. It is time to revisit the legacies of the slaveowners and those who played active roles in the Trans-Atlantic and Trans-Saharan Slave Trade.

How do we memorialized the legacies of indigenous Slaveowners?

We definitely have to revisit how we honor the legacies of slaveowners like Madam Efunroye Tinubu, the wife of Oba Adele, and one of the most brutal slave dealers that operated the Lagos-Ibadan pipeline delivering slaves for Brazilian and Portuguese export. In fact, Tinubu once boasted of drowning her slaves rather than selling them at a discount. Her statue is right there at Tinubu Square in Lagos Island. She is not alone. Efunsetan Aniwura was probably the most despicable of all the slave dealers in Southwest Nigeria. She was an extremely wicked slave dealer. This woman made it an abomination for her female slaves to get pregnant, and when they do, she openly beheaded them in cold blood at the Ibadan Town Square. How exactly is the crime of Edward Colston and Robert Milligan different from the legacies of Madam Tinubu and Efunsetan Aniwura? Why should Edward and Robert be dishonored abroad while we continue to honor Efunsetan and Madam Tinubu at home?

People still honor and revere the legacies of Oba Akintoye, Kosoko, Ologun Kutere, Akinsemoyin, Oba Ovonranwen Nogbaisi and others who were the biggest slave traders in Lagos and Benin. How exactly are they different from Edward Colston and Robert Milligan? Oshodi Tapa, Dada Antonio, Ojo Akanbi and others who were former slaves and later became big time slave merchants built generational wealth from slave trade. Today, their legacies are not only revered and whitewashed, but their children are still reaping from the generational wealth their ancestors built from slavery. These are examples from the South. In Northern Nigeria, there are too many examples but I will prefer not to mention names. Virtually all the emirates in Northern Nigeria are bastions of slavedealers with history of Emirs who serially abused young girls and religiously justified it in the name of “concubinage”. Sean Stilwell and Heidi Nast did excellent studies on the despicable enslavement and concubinage in northern emirates see “Paradoxes of Power: The Kano Mamluks and Male Royal Slavery in the Sokoto Caliphate 1804-1903” and “Concubines and Power: Five Hundred Years in a Northern Nigerian Palace”.

This is not a regional issue. From the north to the south, there are people who are complicit of the same crimes perpetrated by Edward Colston and Robert Milligan but whose legacies are still revered and honored. In fact, look at Port harcourt city. The city was named after Lewis Vernon Harcourt, the British Secretary of State, who was also a sex maniac. Lewis Harcourt was a serial child abuser and he abused both young boys and girls. Today, the hub of the oil industry in Nigeria is named after him. Some of our streets are named after colonial officers and local slave warriors with very dark histories.

The question here is, should our society continue to honor the legacies of slaveowners and those who played active roles in the Trans-Atlantic and Trans-Saharan Slave Trade? Should the society continue to name monuments, schools, and landmarks after them even though we are all aware of their dark legacies? Should we just forget and overlook? Or should we follow the Donald Duke approach and build a slave museum to document the dark histories?

Image - The cenotaph of Efunporoye Osuntinubu Olumosa at Tinubu Square Lagos Island.

From Ilesha, to Erin-Ijesha, Ipetu-Ijesha, Ikeji-Ile, Eti-Oni to Owena Ijeshaland, there are many Urhobo settlers, some of whom are 3rd generation settlers.

Many of them have even married Ijesha women and Ijesha men have also married their daughters,especially in the last 25 years when immorality seems to have become accepted in the hitherto conservative rural areas such that young people now impregnate or get pregnant for anybody regardless of Tribes.

Which town in Ijebuland is having identity crisis?

Efewestern:
Where in Okpe did you serve? some are having this identity crisis like you have in the Ijebu and Yoruba debate, majority still see themselves as Urhobos.

Wisdom is profitable to direct!

The Ijaws, Efik, Ibiobio,Ogonis or Urhobos don't make these kinds of statements because they seems to be wiser than you.

hammerpP:
The North is very straight forward, just like the Igbo man.


If we dont like u, we make it clear.


Yoruba is like a green snake under the green grass.


If Nigeria was just Igbo and Hausa even fulani, either we make it work or we fight, go our separate way by now. no long ting.

Every body in Nigeria can NOT act alike and behave alike.
The world views and cultural backgrounds of the Yorubas must not necessarily be the same with that of your people.


There is no Tinubu in Anambra, Enugu, Ebonyi or Abia States. Have these States turned to Dubai?

Are Yorubas the reasons why Poverty rate in Anambra is over 20%, there are urban decay in Abia State or are the Yorubas the problems of Ebonyi States?

Look inward, your greatest problems are NOT caused by outsiders.

hammerpP:
If the truth be known, an Igbo man can stay in Nigeria with just North.

The added wahala of SW is wat is making Nigeria unbearable and impossible.

If Buhari was from SW, will we ever see this type of protest against him? No.

Tinubu is still god in the SW till tomorrow, no matter wat. cc pazienza

These guys fail to understand certain things;

1) Actions generate reactions; when you insult some tribes/regions, the people from those tribes/regions will respond in many different ways and that response is NOT going to be positive towards you.

2) When you criticize Government and in the process and you are insulting some tribes/regions at the same time, hitherto neutral peoples from those tribes/regions you are insulting will not join you in the criticism but many of them will start opposing you in a form of Tribal/Regional solidarity.

Omoiyaa:
you people don't want to see rich or average northner

Why always using the poor among them for your propaganda? Don't you have poor people in the east? See as you captured those kids to mock a whole region

Stop deceiving yourself, these are the real Arewa boys enjoying oil money below, although many of them are into business and advanced agriculture.Instead of our youths to wake up and do something by holding our leaders accountable for our allocations,we are busy looking for any opportunity to stereotype and call the north poor and backward while northerners are busy building their empires

Mr Tribalists,
Face whatever media you have problems with or Aunty Kemi but leave Yorubas out of it.














You can NOT win this game by playing the tribal card, it will only put you in disadvantaged positions.

hammerpP:
BUT YORUBA THIRD WORLD MEDIA AND KEMI OLULOYE SAID BUHARI IS THE NEXT BEST THING SINCE SLICE BREAD AND TINUBU MUST TAKE OVER IN 2023.

HOW COME THIS, IN BUHARI HOME STATE OF KATSINA?

Honestly I don't know how people make such a conclusion.

Sammy07:
By commercial sector.

Definition of commercial sector means buying and selling / doing retail business

How does Igbos dominate ?

Similar political structures with different political offices existed in Bini and Yorubaland for hundreds of years before the British came.

proudevil:
Prior to (my words) the colonial conquest of Northern Nigeria, this was the political administration they (sic) met (by the British) in Hausaland.

1. Sarki - Emir (President).
2. Waziri - Vice President.
3. Sarkin Fada - Chief of Staff.
4. Kaura - Chief of Defence staff.
5. Al-qali - Minister of Justice.
6. Sarkin Ruwa/Wakilin Rijiya - Minister of water resources.
7. Ma'aji - Accountant General.
8. Sarkin 'Makera - Minister of Power and steal.
9. Sarkin Dogarai/ Garkuwa - Chief of Army staff.
10. Sarkin Tsafta - (Minister of Health).
11. Hakimi - Governor.
12. Mai gari - Chairman.
13. Dagaci - Councilor.
14. Majalisar Sarakuna - Senate or House of Representatives.
15. Galadima - Interior minister (cikin gida).
16. Sarkin Doka- Inspector General of The Police (IGP).
17. Wazirin Aiyuka - Minister of Works.
18. Sarkin Noma - Minister of Agriculture.
19. Jakadiya - Minister of Women affairs.
20. Sarkin Malamai - Minister or commissioner for Religious affairs.
21. Shamaki - ADC.
22. Maga Takardar - SSG (Secretary to the Government).
23. Gwadabe, Sallama, Fagaci, Baraya & Baushi - Protocols
24. Sarkin Yaki - Army Commander.
25. Sarkin Dawaki - Minister of Culture.
26. Sarkin Labarai - Minister of information
27. Mai Unguwa - Supervisory Councillor.

This is somebody's husband, father, brother, uncle and son.

Show empapthy or just keep quiet ma.

It can happen to anybody.

Janny0001:
Rip in advance. My thoughts and prayers are with your family oga governor.

Excuse me sir, which tribes dominate the sales, transportation and processing of cassava, maize, beans and Yams?

bamidelee:
You this hypocrite again, go back to village and be selling akpu

Commercial activities in Nigeria are vast and are dominated by different peoples e.g

The sales and distribution of Petroleum products across Nigeria is dominated by Northern and to some extent Yoruba business men.

The sales of Paints, nails, roofing sheets are dominated by which tribe?

The sales of plastic pipes ,tanks and other plumbing materials.

Which tribe dominate the sales and distribution of textile materials like lace, guinea or Ankara?

Which tribe dominate the sales of plastic chairs, tables, plates, cups, buckets etc?

Sammy07:
Abi now.
If he said they dominate importation.
I will agree.

But he said commercial sector, which means doing retail business.

I don't know how they dominate, if I use Ondo state as an example.

Get Collins Powel was the Chairman, Joint Chief of Staff.

Service Chiefs include the heads of the Army, Navy, Air Force and the Chairman of Joint Chief of Staff.

garetz:
You are the one getting it wrong, Colin Powell was not a service chief. This man, Charles Brown is the first ever black man to be appointed as service chief in the US military.

I don't know anything about what you are saying.

I guess this post was meant for another person.

Mmuoojukwu:
My dear Oyatz, I won't say something is wrong with you because it's obvious. Your conscience is dead. So because of your evil style of politics, I should keep quiet. Thunder fire that politics. They killed your neighbours, you kept quiet, they killed your brothers, you kept quiet. You are living in prison. When they will kill you, nobody will talk because it's politics. My dear, change your way and save the next generation. So to you, I should support a president like Buhari so that you will support me. Only a stupid fellow will think that way. Do the right thing, let Nigerians choose the best candidate or keep destroying Nigeria until you get tired.

The calling out two whole regions consisting of people that belong to different political parties, tribes and religions instead of making calling out the whole country has already created a DIVISION in your message with peoples on different sides of the divide.

People that fall on the opposite side of the divide you created won't support you in criticism which has a tribal undertone to denigrate them.
They will rather join hands to attack you and your side in return,so in effect the side that has the greatest number of people will win.

9japride:
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People are rising their voices to clear sign of nonseriousness of the leaders and thenvironmental inability for a whole president to be visible to the public. I don't do Afonja and flat head talks, I rather call outhe the south west for keeping quiet and same as the north because of 2023 elections. No morality in Nigeria politics it's just about interest.

I don't understand.


What concern Nairabet in this matter?

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We need as many people as possible to contest for the presidential election.
This will strengthen our democratic culture.





Being defeated at an election is not necessarily an evil thing, many people who have been defeated before have won elections later on.

We can't say we will not take a great decision because of the fear of failure.
It's better to make a great decision and fail than not taking any decision.

Life is all about taking risks, the men who risk nothing, gain nothing and are nothing. For the wheels of progress to continue to roll, reasonable risks are worth taken.

LabDNA:
Fear no go gree am. He has already see the handwritten on the wall.

His failure at the polls will be more scandalous than Awolowo's failure.

Why are you not contesting against them or support a candidate against them?

Freestainworld:
he has an eye to that seat, his body language says it all, I am even tired of our Nigerian politicians, they keep recycling themselves from year to year for office positions.

And what is bad is all these?

It is democracy in action for it shows that the opposition PDP will be back to power in 2023 and we will not be hearing of rigging of elections thereby strengthening our democratic culture.

manuelreports:
It is easier for El-rufai to become a Pastor than Tinubu to become President of Nigeria. His only strong hold is South West which he is fast losing his Political relevance apart from Lagos which is his Company. He can never be accepted by Core Northern Muslim and can never ever be accepted in South East. So if Tinubu emerge as a Flag bearer of APC. It is now left for PDP to look for a Political Big weight from the North to beat him hands down.
Don't ask me about Igbo, because Igbos are leaving Nigeria.

IBB did alot of disservice to himself and Nigeria by the annulment of that election.



He should have called the Ambassadors and High Commissioner of USA, UK, Russia, Canada and Germany to a meeting at Abuja informed them and sought their support about his decision to announce the results of the election in their presence , immediate retirement of Abacha, Dogoyaro, David Mark and other Military that are posing threats to the transition to democratic rule.

Where are the tall buildings in Kwara, Kogi, Benue orZamfara, Gombe, Katsina and Yobe States built by the Northern Regional Government in the 1960s?

PapaBrowne:
We don't have to abolish states to implement regions same way we didn't abolish LGs to implement states.

But without question regionalization is the only way forward.

I was in Kaduna and Kano some months ago. In Kaduna at the central area, you have some tall buildings mostly built in the 60s that depict the glory days of the city. In Kano, you have some wonderful buildings mostly built in the 60s. Then you have numerous warehouses in Bombay industrial layout also from the 60s that indicate that it thrived greatly in an era before this.

There are hardly any new quality buildings in these two cities for the last 40 years.

Isn't it a clear indication that regionalism favored the North and the oil has not benefited it in any way? Why then would its leaders be opposed to

There are Federal Roads in ALL the States connecting one State to the other or connecting Nigeria to neighboring Countries e.g Lagos-Badagary road which leads to Benin Republic, Togo etc.


The Bridges were built over the Rivers and Lagoons which are the areas that were under the Federal Capital.

Some Traffic Flyovers were also built outside the old FCT by the Federal Government to facilitate entrance into the old Federal Capital.

Some other Bridges and Fly overs were built by the Lagos State Government e.g the Lekki-Epe Suspended Bridge.



There are examples of Federal Government built Bridges in other parts of Nigeria e.g the Niger Bridge,Onitsha built under Tafawa Balewa Government in 1965 and the Mokwa-Jebba Bridge.

It's interesting to State here that the Tafawa Balewa administration first conceptualized the Third Mainland Bridge and the Gowon Regime started the construction under the supervision of Arch Femi Okunu (an illustrious son of Lagos) as the Federal Commissioner of Works.

bigpicture001:
Who designedvnd built Lagos badagry express road...? ...

Lagos govt...

Who built all those many famous bridges across Lagos..? Lagost state government...

Guy park and use one bottle of orijin calm down

Only a very small part of Lagos State was ever Federal Capital (From Victoria Island, Apapa to Yaba.) Any where after the railway crossing at Yaba intobJibowu or Mushin marked the beginning of Western Region.

Mushin, Shomolu, Ikeja, Oshodi-Isolo Agege, Ibeju--Lekki, Ajeromi-Ifelodun, Ojo, Alimosho etc were never part of Federal Capital but were under Western Region.


Enugu city was the Capital of Old Eastern Region but NOT the whole of Enugu State.

gidgiddy:
Back in day, Lagos used to be separate from the Western Region as Lagos was the Capital territory. After the capital was moved to Abuja, Lagos was claimed by the western Region.

I have always maintained that had Lagos never been made capital of Nigeria by by the British, Yorubas would not have been able to make it what it is today

Don't mind him.


Traditional African Religion is against shedding of human innocent blood .

OFFICIAL336:
At least no human skull was mined

2023: Orji Uzor Kalu for President

senatordave1:
But corona infested ikpeazu,abaribe and t.a orji haven't visited.
I have always believed that ouk arguably is the number one south east politician in apc and the north is favourably disposed to him even more than okorocha and umahi.if power will be zoned to the east,the north will certainly not ignore him.

That mean there won't be rigging in 2023?

Subsea:
Brutai will not be there again in 2023 to rig with his army! Get that clear!

Every name exist in as much as it's used to identify a person, place or period.


The names of the Geopolitical zones in Nigieria is not necessarily must be the same as Cardinal points.

Jman24:
I never solicited for old eastern region. I'm only saying the name south south doesn't exist. Don't let hate override your sense of reasoning

You can only run , you cannot hide.




















. . . .They are coming to take you.

SonOfEl:
They have called you....your village people Sha won't let you rest in piece. Continue dancing to your grave

So they have also declared some parts of Rivers State as no man's land?

sageb:
come to Bonny and opobo and tell the Amayanabo(s) that his kingdom is an igbo territory, shey you people like trouble you will see double.

You want to go and meet Niger-Delta Militants in their creek at night?

hammerU:
EVERYTIME THEY COME WITH THEIR NIGERDELTA NONSENSE, IT IS LIKE CREATING CONFUSION.


THE WORST PART IS THEY WILL BE ADDING TERRITORY THAT ARE NOT IJAW INTO THEIR NIGERDELTA.


E JUST BE LIKE SAY MAKE NEPA TAKE LIGHT, MAKE WE ENTER CREEK GO MEET THEM.

Most people from the Core North have grand parents from different tribes.

Only few Christians/Animists in their midst that don't marry freely.

FortuneDeGreat:
No, not mixed, the father was a Gere man as well as the mother, but the mother Fatima Inna's mother was a Fulani.
Where's the mixture?